Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2014

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Gini Index of Monthly Earnings, 2014: every country, as published by International Labour Organization (ILO).

Positionderived	Country	Gini index of employees' monthly earnings (0 = all paid the same, 1 = one employee earns everything)	ILO observation status
1	TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa	0.726	—
2	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	0.669	—
3	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	0.644	—
4	UgandaUGAEastern Africa	0.631	—
5	CameroonCMRMiddle Africa	0.610	—
=6	BurundiBDIEastern Africa	0.571	—
=6	RwandaRWAEastern Africa	0.571	Break in series
8	NigerNERWestern Africa	0.567	—
9	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	0.534	—
10	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	0.516	—
11	LiberiaLBRWestern Africa	0.507	Break in series
12	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	0.495	Break in series
13	MaliMLIWestern Africa	0.481	Break in series
14	NicaraguaNICCentral America	0.471	Break in series
15	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	0.468	—
16	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	0.455	—
17	YemenYEMWestern Asia	0.445	Break in series
18	Costa RicaCRICentral America	0.434	—
19	HondurasHNDCentral America	0.429	—
20	ChileCHLSouth America	0.428	—
21	BrazilBRASouth America	0.423	—
22	GuatemalaGTMCentral America	0.417	Break in series
23	Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean	0.411	—
24	IrelandIRLNorthern Europe	0.408	—
25	PakistanPAKSouthern Asia	0.406	—

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 0.365. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

• +14 / −8countries joined / left
• 65values changed, of 69 in both
• 19 · 46rose · fell
• 4unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Belize+ Brunei+ Cameroon+ Comoros+ Liberia+ Niger+ Nicaragua+ Rwanda+ Tanzania+ Uganda+ Yemen+ Zimbabwe− Bangladesh− Côte d’Ivoire− Egypt− Ethiopia− Ghana− Malawi− Nigeria− Timor-Leste

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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